The time has come for building a global sustainability cooperative. This means whole-systems approaches covering all aspects of sustainable and ecologically intelligent approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. One Community is working to design, open source and free-share, and build these solutions for the benefit of all people and life on our shared planet.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of building a global sustainability cooperative as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 30, 2017 edition (#214) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #214

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Reality Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research to create 2 final renders and a second generation render of the The Ultimate Classroom (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:10

• Created new image and added all the recently created images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:29

• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 10th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed his 2nd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped convert the work from Adrienne Gould-Choquette into the first sections of the new City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:28

• Updated our volunteer collaboration application page to make it easier to understand and complete (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Jono Lewis, and Anil Kumar Malla completed their collective 2nd week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @9:00

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BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This last week the core team completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Reality Lesson Plan, as you can see here:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Lesson plan mindmap for Reality – 25% Complete

And we continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Quality and Quantity Lesson Plan and the Recreation and Relaxation Lesson Plan. This brings us to 13 of 52 finished, which is 25% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

And the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, setting up and testing this updated overview render:

Continued Creation of the Renders for The Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create this final external render of the complete Ultimate Classroom:

Created Final External Render of the Complete Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

… this final render of the Red Room:

Created Final Render of the Ultimate Classroom Red Room – Click for Page

… and this 2nd generation render of the Yellow Room:

Created 2nd Generation Render of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room – Click for Page

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team created 1 new image and added all the recently created images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here.

Created New Image and Added All Recently Created Images to the Food Page – Click to Visit

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team created 22 new pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages. You can see 6 examples of these here.

Created 22 New Pages Related to the Open Source Hubs from Each of the 7 Villages – Click to Visit Page

We also started creating a demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial we’re developing. You can see version 1.0 of these example structures here.

Started Creating Demo Set of Layouts for AutoCAD Template and Tutorial – Click for Page

In addition to this, and working on the Earthbag Village, we updated this final open-bed view of the Murphy bed inside one of the domes:

Updated Final Open-Bed View of the Murphy Bed Inside One of the Domes – Click for Page

…..and this final view of the Children’s dome:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering

…and we added photoshop edits and details to this section view of the Murphy bed from last week:

Added Photoshop Edits and Details to Section view of the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

We also continued working on Murphy bed assembly instructions. What you see here are the new cover design and the newest instructional template for cutting pieces.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding a drain to the bottom of the structure and further updates to all the piping specifics, as shown here.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was septic research and initial designs, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower & Vermiculture Bathroom Designs

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 16th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was further exploring ways to make emptying easier.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development ” Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was round 3 of our suggested edits to the Straw Bale Village search engine, as shown here.

Continued Developing the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 66 of Dean’s work. This week Dean finished this final render of the SE Living Space looking North cutaway:

Final Render of Southeast Living Space Looking North Cutaway – Click for Page

…and this Loft view from the same wing and also looking North:

Final Render of Southeast Living Space Looking North Loft View

In addition to this, Dean started the work you see here for the Northeast wing:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Continued Work on the Renders for the Cob Village

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 39th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was test rendering the complete external perspectives.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped create these AutoCAD exports of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) in 3D.

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Created AutoCAD Exports of Tree House Village

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the wind calculations for the structure. You can see version 2.0 notes for this work here.

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Updated Our Volunteer Collaboration Application Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus of writing draft 1 of the micro-grid tutorial and initial layouts for the breaker panels.

Continued Working on the Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Renan Dantas: Mechanical Engineer continued with his 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was updating the elevation details and more updates to the bathrooms and kitchen.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was updating the calculations spreadsheets you see here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial Details for the City Center

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis. This week’s focus was continued analysis of the heat transfer specifics, as shown here.

Continued Helping with City Center Basement Finite Element Analysis – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped convert the work of Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) into the first sections of the new City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Helped Convert Adrienne’s Work into the First Sections of the New City Center Heating & Cooling Hub

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This last week the core team updated our volunteer collaboration application page to make it easier to understand and complete.

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Updated Our Volunteer Collaboration Application Page

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Jono Lewis (Software Developer), and Anil Kumar Malla (Software Engineer) completed their collective 2nd week of work on the The Highest Good Network. Here you can see some screenshots from our weekly collaborative call and code details as we continue to learn Ember.js as our development platform.

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – Continued Working on the The Highest Good Network

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Helping people create global ecology can best be accomplished if the solutions provided are easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough that they will spread on their own. Open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices are capable of achieving this.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of helping people create global ecology as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 23rd, 2017 edition (#213) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping People Create Global Ecology
One Community Progress Update #213

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY INTRO: @1:03

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:04

• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Created a new Ultimate Classroom overview image for inclusion at the end of the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Completed final 40% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working with Sangam Stanczak developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program (see below)
• Ashwin Patil added new icons and the associated pages to the Highest Good education search engine (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou completed the addition and formatting of the final images to the Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:42

• Created 4 additional header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:10

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:50

• Updated the living dome sunrise patio render for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Updated the formatting, descriptions, and renders on the City Center main open source hub (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 35th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 15th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette worked on more load calculations and projections for the City Center heating and air conditioning infrastructure (see below

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:31

• Sowmya Manohar completed her 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network and was joined by Anil Kumar Malla completing his 1st week of work (see below)

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY SUMMARY: @9:00

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HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY : HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This week, the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, adding additional aesthetic elements like musical instruments on the upper shelves and tools under the seats.

Helping People Create Global Ecology – Renders for The Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page

We also created a new Ultimate Classroom overview image for inclusion at the end of the 7 villages online book we’re developing:

Created a New Ultimate Classroom Overview Image for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Page

And we completed the final 40% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, as you can see here.

Lesson plan mindmap for Form & Our Outer World Complete – Click for Page

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Planet Earth Lesson Plan and the Outer Space Lesson Plan. This brings us to 11 of 52 finished, which is 21% completion.

Helping People Create Global Ecology – 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

Working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), we continued with our 7th week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program. What you see here is the initial teacher outline for the process and addition to the open source hub of new icons we created for this component.

Continued Developing the Evaluation & Evolution Component of the Highest Good Education Program

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) then added these new icons and the associated pages to the Highest Good education search engine.

Helping People Create Global Ecology – Highest Good Education Search Engine – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed the addition and formatting of the final images to the Learning Tools and Toys page.

Helping People Create Global Ecology – Final Images to Learning Tools and Toys Page – Click to Visit

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team created 4 additional header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, which is 93% complete. You can see the 4 images here:

Helping People Create Global Ecology – Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team finished updating the AutoCAD files to standardized formats for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6):

Helping People Create Global Ecology – AutoCAD Files for Recycled Materials Village – Click for Page

We also created this new combination image of the floor plans for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4):

Helping People Create Global Ecology – Combination Image of Floor Plans – Click for Page

…and added this image and the most current landscaping plan to the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub:

Helping People Create Global Ecology – Earth Block Village Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

In addition to this, and working on the Earthbag Village, we updated this cutaway view of the Murphy bed inside one of the dome with added storage boxes in the loft, updating the desk chair, and adjusting the section cut view:

Updated Cutaway View of the Murphy Bed Inside One of the Domes ” Click to visit Page

We also started working on the rendering images for one of the children’s domes, adding bedding details and items on the tables and shelves.

Started Working on the Rendering Images for One of the Children’s Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding in all the piping specifics for connecting the sinks and toilets, as shown here.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was creating the 2nd version of our water reservoirs under the Tropical Atrium.

Working on 2nd Version of Our Water Reservoirs Under Tropical Atrium – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 15th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was researching parts specifics and another alternative for the dumping process.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development ” Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 65 of Dean’s work. This week’s focus was continued work on the cutaway views of the Southeast wing looking North, adding outdoor details and updated bedspreads.

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 38th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was finalizing the brick pattern updates and re-adding in the indigo trim details for the building itself, as shown in the render here:

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 21st week of work, focusing on the seating and layout details of the South side of zone 5.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team updated the living dome sunrise patio render for the Duplicable City Center, and added it to the open source hub:

Updated Living Dome Sunrise Patio Render for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

And we updated the formatting, descriptions, and renders on the City Center main open source hub. You can see some examples of this work here:

Updated Formatting, Descriptions, and Renders on City Center Main Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 35th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing the lighting analysis and placement for the two public bathrooms in the Social Dome.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the wind calculations for the structure. You can see notes for this work here.

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page

Renan Dantas: Mechanical Engineer continued with his 15th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was adding more room and library details, and finishing the kitchen area cleanup.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” Click for Page

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) finished her 16th week with the team. This week’s focus was more load calculations and projections for the City Center heating and air conditioning infrastructure, as shown here. We’d say we are about 90% complete with these calculations now.

Continued Working on City Center Heating and Air Conditioning Calculations ” Click to Visit Page

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE GLOBAL ECOLOGY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create global ecology through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) completed her 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network and was joined by Anil Kumar Malla (Software Engineer), completing his 1st week of work. Their combined focus this week was continued development of the login and landing pages and researching Ember.js <<“ember dot J S>> and MongoDB to confirm these as our best development choices moving forward.

Continued Working on the The Highest Good Network – Click for Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

One Community welcomes Sangam Stanczak to the Education Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Environmental Engineer (Ph.D., P.E.), Certified Yoga Instructor, and Organic Gardner: Sangam’s passion to make a positive contribution to the world has been alive since she was 10 years old. This led to her becoming an environmental engineer by training in the field of water, wastewater, and recycled water treatment. In recent years she has also discovered some emerging passions in psychology, education, and yoga. During her free time, she enjoys substitute teaching, practicing and teaching yoga, and furthering her own education. Motivated by her personal experiences and a desire to address the shortcomings she experienced as a child, Sangam thinks all children (and adults) deserve an opportunity to develop the skills that better prepare them for this unique human experience. Sangam brings her diverse background and skills to the One Community team helping develop the Highest Good Education program.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SANGAM!

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Solutioneering world change requires mainstream involvement if global change is actually going to happen. Open sourcing and free-sharing solutions for all aspects of sustainable living is one way to accomplish this.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of solutioneering world change as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 16th, 2017 edition (#212) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solutioneering World Change
One Community Progress Update #212

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE INTRO: @1:03

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Working with Sangam Stanczak, the core team continued with our 6th week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program (see below)
• Completed an additional 35% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan, bringing it to 60% complete (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou completed new image sets for the Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19

• Updated 7 images for the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:45

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:43

• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 34th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 14th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished his work helping with the Control Systems layout
• Vamsi Pulugurtha joined the City Center team and began working on the finite element analysis for the root cellar
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 15th week with the team, working on the City Center heating and air conditioning infrastructure (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:03

• Sowmya Manohar completed her 2nd week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with his 24th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE SUMMARY: @8:38

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SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering world change through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This week, the core team working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued with our 6th week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program. What you see here is the 2nd behind-the-scenes draft of our proposed evaluation process.

Continued Developing the Evaluation & Evolution Component of the Highest Good Education Program

This last week the core team completed an additional 35% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan, bringing it to 60% complete, as you can see here.

Form and Our Outer World Mindmap ” 60% Complete ” Click for Page

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Nature Lesson Plan and the Opposites Lesson Plan. This brings us to 9 of 52 finished, which is 17% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

The core team also continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, adding costumes and other aesthetic elements to the purple room.

Continued Creation of the Renders for The Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed these new image sets for the Learning Tools and Toys page:

Completed New Image Sets for the Learning Tools and Toys Page – Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering world change through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team updated 7 images for the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here:

Updated 7 Images for Food Bars & Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering world change through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team finished updating the AutoCAD files to standardized formats for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 3-dome clusters…

Finished Updating the AutoCAD Files to Standardized Formats for Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

….the complete Cob Village (Pod 3):

Finished Updating the AutoCAD Files to Standardized Formats for Cob Village – Click for Page

And the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), as seen here:

Finished Updating the AutoCAD Files to Standardized Formats for Shipping Container Village

We also continued working on the detailed Earthbag Village furniture construction instructions for the Murphy Beds. Here are some of the different concept layouts we created and explored this week.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Furniture Instructions ” Click for Page

Also related to the Earthbag Village, we created this cutaway view of the Murphy bed inside one of the domes. To create this we added lights, items for the closet, side tables, and stools inside the dome.

Created Cutaway View of the Murphy Bed Inside One of the Domes – Click to Visit Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 10th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding in all the piping specifics for connecting and servicing or replacing the rainwater storage barrels, as shown here:

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was researching our water needs and creating the first version of our water reservoir under the Tropical Atrium.

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 64 of Dean’s work. This week’s focus was continued work on the cutaway views of the Southeast wing looking North, as you can see here:

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Last but not least, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders and layouts with some initial color changes, a new AutoCAD export, and background testing, as shown here:

Began Helping with the Tree House Village Renders and Layouts – Click for Page

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering world change through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 34th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was 2nd-generation lighting analysis and placement for the two public bathrooms in the Social Dome.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was exploring a new do-it-yourself design for the center point of all the dome geometry. You can see the first iteration here.

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus of researching and choosing the inverter, one of the key wire run options, and details for grid connection.

Solutioneering World Change – Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Renan Dantas, Mechanical Engineer continued with his 14th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was adding furniture details to the sunrise patio and more cleanup and double checking of all the equipment details for the kitchen.

Solutioneering World Change – Working on the Duplicable City Center Updates – Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished his work helping with the Control Systems layout. Here you can see the finished spreadsheet organized by zone to account for all the sensors, locks, cameras, and other details.

Solutioneering World Change – Finished Helping with the Control Systems Layout – Click to Visit Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the City Center team and began working on the finite element analysis for the root cellar. What you see here are his initial calculations.

Solutioneering World Change – Began Working on the Finite Element Analysis for the Root Cellar

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) finished her 15th week with the team. This week’s focus was more load calculations and projections for the City Center heating and air conditioning infrastructure. We’d say we are about 80% complete with these calculations now.

Solutioneering World Change – Working on City Center Heating and Air Conditioning Calculations

SOLUTIONEERING WORLD CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering world change through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This last week Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) completed her 2nd week of work on the The Highest Good Network. Her focus this week was beginning development of the tasks page and structure for everything linked to from the dashboard.

Solutioneering World Change – Working on the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued with his 24th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was adding all the alternative education icons to the Highest Good education search engine and another round of revisions to the Straw Bale Village search engine. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Solutioneering World Change – Developing the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click to Visit

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OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

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CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

One Community welcomes Christian Ojeda to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechatronic Engineer: Christian received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechatronic Engineering from Panamericana University in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Since he was a child, he enjoyed learning how things work and from there came his fondness for engineering, especially mechanical design. With more than 5 years of experience in mechanical design he has worked in the development of projects such as devices for people with disabilities, renewable energy projects and design of machinery for industry. As a member of the One Community team, Christian is helping with the design of the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower Designs and the Earthbag Village Vermiculture Communal Eco-toilet designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM CHRISTIAN!

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A whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs that are also open source can provide a pathway to sustainable and better living for everyone.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 9th, 2017 edition (#211) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs
One Community Progress Update #211

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Working with Sangam Stanczak, core team continued with 5th week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program (see below)
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created two final renders of the green and and orange rooms for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:36

• Continued creating images and content for the Food Bars page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil integrated the 4th major round of revisions and edits to the Highest Good Food search engine (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:22

• Started updating the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village 3-dome clusters to the new standardized format (see below)
• Made text and formatting updates to the Earthbag Village book and started working the detailed Earthbag Village furniture construction instructions for the Murphy Beds (see below)
• Alena Thompson her 9th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 9th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Remolina and Lin Xu continued with their 14th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 37th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:50

• Created a new outside render of the City Center sundeck (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette continued with the City Center heating and air conditioning details (see below)

WHOLE SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:40

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @8:00

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WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program

This week, the core team working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued with our 5th week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program. What you see here is the first behind-the-scenes draft of our proposed evaluation process.

Continued Developing the Evaluation and Evolution Component of the Highest Good Education Program – Click for Page

The core team also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan, as you can see here. We added the theme images to the website for this lesson plan as well.

Form and Our Outer World Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click for Page

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Matter and Materials Lesson Plan and the Movement and Development Lesson Plan. This brings us to 7 of 52 finished, which is 13% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

And the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, adding views outside the windows and educational-subject specific items to the red (Health/Nutrition) room, orange (English) room, yellow (Math) room, and green (Science) room, as shown here. 

Continued creation of the Renders for The Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these two final renders of the green and orange rooms from The Ultimate Classroom:

Created Ultimate Classroom Final Render for Green Room ” Click to Visit Page

Created Ultimate Classroom Final Render for Orange Room ” Click to Visit Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued creating images and content for the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~22% completion.

Continued Creating Images and Content for the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued with his 23rd week developing the new Search Engines for our site following a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs. This week’s work was integration of the 4th major round of revisions and edits to the Highest Good Food search engine. The search engine is also now live and available on the Highest Good food page.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Food Search Engine ” Click to Visit Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team started updating the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 3-dome clusters to the new standardized format, as shown here. We’d say we’re about 80% complete with this work. 

Started Updating the AutoCAD File for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

We also made text and formatting updates to the Earthbag Village book pages 20 to 25, creating a new One-Acre Footprint image for page 22, and started working the the detailed Earthbag Village furniture construction instructions for the Murphy Beds.

Updated the Earthbag Village Book and Worked on the Murphy Bed Furniture Instructions – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding a doorway and changing the ladder, determining the pumps for sinks, and further researching the vacuum toilets to identify that pumps won’t be needed for the toilets.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was researching the water storage reservoir for beneath the Tropical Atrium. You can see some of the results of this research here.

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 14th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was researching alternative gravity-assisted ways to make the dumping process easier.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development ” Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 63 of Dean’s work. This weeks’ focus was working on the loft and cutaway views of the Southeast wing looking North following a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs, as you can see here:

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 37th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was more updates to the brick patterns and test rendering a room, and two perspectives for the rooftop patio area.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 20th week of work, focusing on integrating new ideas (from a recent trip to Tokyo) for a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs into the central area shown here.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team created a new outside render of the City Center sundeck.

Created a New Outside Render of the City Center Sundeck – Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus of researching switches on the whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs, beginning to outline the electrical details for the complete structure, and more work on the micro-grid tutorial.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center ” Click for Page

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 14th week with the team. This week’s focus was continuing with the City Center heating and air conditioning details including calculations revisions, researching possible HVAC systems, and discussing humidity and temperature specifics for the root cellar following a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs.

Continued Working on City Center Heating and Air Conditioning Calculations ” Click to Visit Page

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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INVESTOR PAGES

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GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth by a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support our whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs.

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning into whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

One Community welcomes Alena Thompson to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineer: Alena graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University where she received a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Robotics as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Physics. She has consistently applied her problem solving abilities in the Aerospace Industry through her work at Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Corporation and the Naval Research Laboratory. Along with her strong desire to explore new frontiers, leading Alena to focus on the exploration of space, she has also remained grounded in her community. After receiving a full scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Alena set her sights to help others receive the resources they need to reach their full potential. This desire to aid others extended beyond the microcosm of her University. In 2011, Alena embarked on a trip to Haiti to implement a solar powered water purification system. She now strives to increase her global impact through the One Community team and helping design the net-zero water-saving community bathroom model.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ALENA!

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Adaptable solutions for green living are needed if our goal is a planet capable of longterm support for the growing human population. If properly created, these solutions can also help humanity become conscientious stewards of our shared planet. We see open source and free-shared models as the fastest, most sustainable, and for The Highest Good of All approach to this.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of adaptable solutions for green living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 2nd, 2017 edition (#210) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living
One Community Progress Update #210

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING INTRO: @1:03

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Diversity Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created two final renders of the blue and and indigo rooms for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou completed second round of edits for Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:20

• Edited and created instructions and an example in the “Recipe” section of the Food Bars page (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:50

• Completed another round updating the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village to the new standardized format (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 8th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 8th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Remolina and Lin Xu with their 14th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed another round of edits and revisions to produce the Straw Bale Village search engine 2.0 and Highest Good Food search engine 4.0 (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 36th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:06

• Created a new outside render of the City Center that includes the new structural support details (see below)
• Created new merged render from the updated outside image of the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 33rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Jin Yu continued working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette continued working on the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:19

• Created final generation of Amazon Smile and GoodShop promotional graphics to use for new open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar joined the team and completed her first week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING SUMMARY: @8:59

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ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating adaptable solutions for green living through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This last week the core team completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Diversity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, as you can see here.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Diversity Lesson Plan Complete ” Click for Page

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Human Body Lesson Plan and the Information Lesson Plan. This brings us to 5 of 52 finished, which is 10% completion.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Editing all 52 Lesson Plans ” Click for Page

And the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, adding subject-related items to the red (Health/Nutrition) room, orange (English) room, yellow (Math) room, and green (Science) room.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Creation of the Renders for The Ultimate Classroom

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these two final renders of the blue and and indigo rooms from The Ultimate Classroom.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Created Ultimate Classroom Final Render for Blue Room

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Created Ultimate Classroom Final Render for Indigo Room

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her second round of edits and image additions and description for the Learning Tools and Toys page, as you can see here.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Continued Working on the Learning Tools and Toys Page

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating adaptable solutions for green living through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team edited and created instructions and an example in the “Recipe” section of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~21% completion.

Adaptable Solutions for Green Living – Created Instructions and an Example in the “Recipe” Section

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating adaptable solutions for green living through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team completed another round updating the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) to the new standardized format shown here.

Continued Updating the AutoCAD File for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she updated the hatch and ladder, added new piping details, and researched cost and water saving specifics, all shown here.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was autoCAD updates and adding in the urine separating toilet piping details to SolidWorks as shown here.

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 14th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was on the pin and hinge systems to secure the emptying chamber to the pallet jack and assist with dumping.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development ” Click to Visit Page

And Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) completed another round of edits and revisions to produce the Straw Bale Village search engine 2.0 and Highest Good Food search engine 4.0. You can see some of this ongoing work here.

Continued Working on the Straw Bale Village & Highest Good Food Search Engine – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 62 of Dean’s work. This weeks’ focus was finishing this view inside the Southeast wing looking South:

Cob Village Final Render of Southeast Living Space Looking South – Click for Page

and further development of this loft view looking North:

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 36th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was final placement of the front benches, planters, and brick patterns and beginning the addition of the back landscape details too, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details ” Click for Page

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating adaptable solutions for green living through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team created a new outside render of the City Center that includes the new structural support details.

Created New Outside Render of the City Center with New Structural Supports – Click for Page

The core team also created this new merged render from the updated outside image of the City Center.

Created New Merged Render from Updated Outside Image of the City Center – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 33rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was completing lighting analysis and placement for the 2nd floor Living Dome bedrooms and bathrooms, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click to Visit Page

And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 23rd week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was researching and contacting industrial laundry machine providers.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry & Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls and this week’s focus of beginning to write the micro-grid design and implementation tutorial.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center ” Click for Page

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was adding in the library furniture details, basement refrigeration and freezer units, bridge over the pond out front, urinals in all the bathrooms, and other design updates.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

And Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was integration of pages of feedback and updates to the column foundation and baseplate tutorials, as shown here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial Details for Duplicable City Center

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 13th week helping. This week’s focus was continuing the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations by evaluating the City Center room by room with occupancy and use projections.

Continued Working on City Center Heating & Air Conditioning Load Calculations ” Click to Visit

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating adaptable solutions for green living through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team created the final generation of Amazon Smile and GoodShop promotional graphics. You can see these graphics here, showing a different graphic for each of these nonprofit fundraising options and for each of the times of year we intend to promote for support using the new open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

Created Amazon Smile Cyber Monday Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Summer Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Spring Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Back-to-School Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Holiday Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Black Friday Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop Valentines Day Promotion – Click for Page

Created Goodshop General Promotion Image – Click for Page

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) joined the team and completed her first week of work on the The Highest Good Network. Her focus this week was learning about the program, outlining her intended development process, and drawing the application workflow.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

ADAPTABLE SOLUTIONS FOR GREEN LIVING BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

One Community welcomes Jin Yu to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Structural Engineering Designer: Jin has her M.S. in Structural Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison and her B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Jilin University. During her graduate research project, she worked closely with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation on the analysis and retrofit of existing complex steel bridges using finite-element-modeling techniques. After graduation, she acquired solid industrial experience both in the states and overseas on the design of mix-use high-rise reinforced concrete structures. During her 5 years of practice, she became an high-intermediate user of many structural engineering and plotting softwares including but not limited to: ETABS, SAP2000, CSiBridge, spColumns, MathCad, Revit, AutoCad, Abaques, etc. She is an Engineer-In-Training since 2014 and is looking forward to getting her Professional Engineer license in 2017/2018. Currently looking for an entry-level structural engineer opportunity, Jin seeks broad responsibilities in steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete, and/or wood design of buildings and bridges. Jin’s contribution to One Community has been in the structural design of the Duplicable City Center including all the underground foundation/basement structural design calculations and the related open source tutorial. She is also helping other structural engineer members in the modeling and design of the superstructure above the ground.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JIN!

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Facilitating global eco-collaboratives is one way to create global cooperation towards a sustainable planet that will benefit us all.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of facilitating global eco-collaboratives as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 26th, 2017 edition (#209) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives
One Community Progress Update #209

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES INTRO: @1:03

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Working with Sangam Stanczak, core team continued with 3rd week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program (see below)
• Completed first 50% of the mindmap for the Diversity Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Finished the The Ultimate Classroom external render (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research to create three final renders of the red and orange room aspects of The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou began her first round of adding all the images, cost analysis results, age ranges, and other details to the Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:45

• Created one additional image and added all 7 recently created images to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:14

• Working with Ashwini Ramesh, the core team put another combined total of 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 7th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed 7th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 10th week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 35th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:31

• Created an updated outside image of the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 32nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center Â (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering Â (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center with Mike Hogan Â (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued his work helping with the Control Systems layout (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 12th week continuing the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:38

• Created the first generation of Amazon Smile promotional graphics (see below)

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES SUMMARY: @8:50

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FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-collaboratives through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program

This week, the core team working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued with our 3rd week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program. What you see here is our first reporting on this 3 weeks of work and research that has happened behind the scenes.

Working on developing the evaluation & Evolution component of the Highest Good Education program

The core team also completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Diversity Lesson Plan: 

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Diversity Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click for Page

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Energy Lesson Plan and the Fall Lesson Plan. This brings us to 3 of 52 finished, which is 6% completion.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives, Editing all 52 Lesson plans ” Click for lesson plans for Life Page

Additionally, the core team finished the The Ultimate Classroom external render you see here by adding plants, a surrounding landscape, updating the walls, and choosing the best angle for the render.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Finished the The Ultimate Classroom External Render

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these three final renders of the red and orange room aspects of The Ultimate Classroom.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives, Created ultimate classroom final render for Red & Orange Room

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives, Created ultimate classroom final render for Red & Orange Room

Created Ultimate Classroom Final Render for Red Room – Click to Visit Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) began her first round of adding all the images, cost analysis results, age ranges, and other details to the Learning Tools and Toys page, as you can see here.

Began Working on the Learning Tools and Toys Page – Click to Visit

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-collaboratives through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team created one additional image and added all 7 recently created images to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, bringing that page to 93% completion, which you can see here:

Created New Image & Added all 7 Recently Created Images to the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-collaboratives through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we continued editing the Excavation and Construction of an Earthbag Dome GoogleDoc, focusing on floor construction (Section 11). You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign we are Developing – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she built a new funnel center and finished another series of roof and internal revisions that included the hatch and ladder you see here.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was 2nd generation modeling of the vermiculture hot and cold water and septic piping details, as shown here:

Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) also continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 10th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on stress testing and a new way to secure the emptying box to the main structure.

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 61 of Dean’s work. This weeks’ focus was further development of the lighting and views through the window of this 2nd perspective from the East wing and looking South.

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 35th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was benches, planters, and brick patterns for the front of the building, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 20th week of work, focusing on further redesigns to the main entryway that added bike racks and improved circulation for this area.

Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-collaboratives through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team created an updated outside images of the City Center. To do this we finished adding structural support items, explored the best shadow options and point of view, and made sure it all matched our current render image so we can begin the next step of merging them.

Created an Updated Outside Image of the City Center – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 32nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was another round of light placement and light dispersion testing that allowed us to comfortably eliminate 1 light per bedroom in the whole 1st-floor of the Living Dome, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing the roof design, updating the columns in the basement to be concrete, and beginning to revise the related calculations.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Working on the City Center Structural Engineering

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus of researching rackmounted vs Tower UPSs and backup storage options.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also continued his work helping with the Control Systems layout. This week’s focus was creating a spreadsheet to organize by zone and account for all the sensors, locks, cameras, and other details.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives – Working on the Control Systems Layout – Click to Visit Page

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 12th week helping. This week’s focus was continuing the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations you see here.

Facilitating Global Eco-Collaboratives, Working on Heating & Air Conditioning Load Calculations

FACILITATING GLOBAL ECO-COLLABORATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global eco-collaboratives through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team created the first generation of Amazon Smile promotional graphics, which are now 90% complete except for a few additional edits and another needed theme to cover Valentines Day. 

Created the First Generation of Amazon Smile Promotional Graphics – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.